I’d be up to try Mysterium. Looks like it could be fun to sit and play with the family. Appreciate it either way. Happy holidays!

Wait, are lions part of the nativity? I don’t think I knew that

I haven’t looked extensively, but for the past ten minutes I’ve not been able to find any article. About 20 different news stories to say the same thing, but none of them actually link a peer reviewed published article.

I would like to know where you could reasonably buy a blue whale. That would be amazing.

Yeah, that’s good advice. I actually knew the book had something to do with that. But after the first chapter or two, I did go back and need to review some of that, as it’s been a while since I’ve taken a philosophy class. And I’m glad I did because some of the chapters I’ve read now I think made a bit more sense with that fresh on my mind.

I have been reading Anathema by Neal Stephenson. I’m about a fourth of the way through and it’s been great. I’ve read two or three of his other books which I’ve really enjoyed. Cryptonomicon became one of my favorite books. But so far this has been up there as something that may top that, it’s been pretty good so far. I hope it ends well.

Not exactly the same, but suggests probably it would not turn out well. https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/histoire_bleu06.html

My father went to high school with someone whose last name was Butts. His parents named him Harold and called him, and thus his friends called him, Harry. I always kind of thought it was a tall tale until my father showed me his high school yearbook one day And there was a picture of Harry Butts.

I always kind of wanted to meet this man and his wife and ask her if he lived up to his name.

It doesn’t have it by default. Many people drink it without, often with a bit of milk to thin it out a little.

I’ll enter for God of War, I watched a few YouTube videos of it with my son and it looked fun and a good story. Thanks for this idea, it’s fun. Good luck to everyone.

Something that made me happy this year: my son tested into advanced math placement at school and I still can’t get over how amazed I am with the poor genes I passed in to him. Couldn’t be more proud as it was something he wanted and of his own choosing spent extra time practicing math. Don’t know how I lucked out, but he’s pretty impressive to me

I tried so many, eventually landed on trilium. It’s not perfect by any means, but it ticks the most boxes for my needs

This is probably not true. The concept of this phrase but referring to family is probably a modern confusion. There is no clear evidence it means it was really referencing ties to friends. Although I wish it did. Here’s some further reading from others also looking for a clearer reference.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/is-the-alleged-original-meaning-of-the-phrase-blood-is-thicker-than-water-real

You are correct. -itis just means inflammation or infection, encephalon just means brain. You can have encephalitis caused by multiple things, viruses, bacteria, fungal, auto immune diseases and so forth

I love trilium, I can self host. Doesn’t have user support so I host two instances for me and wife. We then use mealie for recipes. It’s worked really well

Trilium notes. Not perfect, but the best of many I’ve tried for my needs.

It’s too bad this forces SSL connections. I’d like to use it for some home network/lan sites I have that are http only and use this just for convenience to access when at fine, but it requires a secure connection it seems

Kissless handholdless (I’ve seen some say hopeless} virgin

I use backblaze B2. I use duplicity to create a local encrypted backup of daily and then monthly incremental backups that are stored on a separate hard drive as a local backup. I then sync that with backblaze every night. It’s worked like a treat. Gives me my primary data, a local backup on a separate drive and then an off-site backup. And actually my primary data and my local backups are both on ZFS raidz2 drives, so I can even have drives fail and be okay.

I used to use glacier, but the backblaze interface and uploading scripts were just so much easier to use, and the price was comparable if not maybe just slightly cheaper, I can’t remember exact. I think duplicity also has a front end, duplicati that some people use, but I’ve never used it.

Can you elaborate? Or tell me where I can read more, I did not know this

Just finished shadow of Mordor yesterday and it was fun, and worked perfect on the deck. Today I started Darkwood, seems to be working reasonably well so far, although the run versus walk controls are a little clunky, but overall no big issues just an hour in to it